The Cookie Chase

[CORA, spoken]
On your toes!

[sung]
Lock 'em up! Put 'em away! In the Jar!
Time to start getting the nets out!
Lock 'em up! Into the cage! Quietly!
No one must know
Cart 'em off into the bin! Turn the key!
Quick, before anyone gets out!
Turn the key! Throw it away! There we are!
Forty-eight to go!

(spoken)
Detmold? Check in your patients.

[DETMOLD, spoken]
Madam, did you always hate your father?

[CORA, spoken]
Arrest that Cookie now, convict her later. The only question of interest to us is...

(sung)
Are they breathing? Then they're Cookies
Are they living? Then they're Cookies
Are they moving? Then they're Cookies
So get on with it! Quick, get on with it!
Are they human? Then they're Cookies
So shut up, my dear doctor, and shut her up, too!

Looky, looky, here comes Cookie
Now
Naughty Cookie, playing hooky—
That we won't allow

(spoken)
Cigarette?
Light.
Thanks.
Lock 'em up.

(sung)
You take the key, my love
I'm too exhausted to move
Music, I must have music
A moment's music or my head will burst!
I know you'll meet the test—
You've been well rehearsed
Do your best
(Meaning do your worst)
Let me rest
And remember, Schubchen,
Women and children first!

[CORA & THE POLICE]
Mmm
Lock 'em up
Put 'em away
In the Jar
Time to start getting the nets out!
Lock 'em up
Into the cage
Quietly
No one must know

Lock 'em up, put 'em away in the Jar!
Time to start getting the nets out!
Lock 'em up into the cage, quietly!
No one must know
Cart 'em off into the bin, turn the key!
Quick, before anyone gets out!
Turn the key, throw it away, there we are!
Forty-three to go!

[FAY, spoken]
Ooh la la, Monsieur Schub.

[SCHUB, spoken]
Not yet gone back to France yet?

[FAY, spoken]
Non.

[SCHUB, spoken]
Why not?

[FAY, spoken]
Because you have ze key to my heart.

[SOPRANO SOLO]
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah, ah
Ah
Ah
Ah ah!

[FAY]
Fire!
Hurricane!
Everyone off of ze streets!

[FAY & ENSEMBLE]
Run for your lives, run for your lives!

[FAY]
Ze dam has burst!

[FAY & ENSEMBLE]
Run for your lives, run for your lives!

[FAY]
Ze lion's loose!
Fire, bubonic plague, air raid warning—

[FAY & ENSEMBLE]
Hurry, run! Run! Run!
Run for your lives, run for your lives!

[MAN]
The dam has burst!

[FAY & ENSEMBLE]
Run for your lives, run for your lives!

[MAN]
The lion's loose!

[FAY & ENSEMBLE]
Fire, bubonic plague, air raid warning—
Hurry! Run, run, run!